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"For petitions, open letters, or similar public communications that you've signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public informat

by gst 15y ago

"For petitions, open letters, or similar public communications that you've signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information." Nice. So if I sign the petition they are allowed to sell my data?

briandear 15y ago
It's a great way for the whitehouse to build contact lists for potential contributors. The petitions are meaningless. Pressuring Congress is far more effective and time-tested.
bmj 15y ago
Isn't this the way petitions work? I mean, if a group brings a petition to a city council, what good is it if it's full of names? Simply saying "15,000 people support this" without enumerating those supporters doesn't seem very effective. And that also seems to be standard verbiage for online petitions. See this one (http://civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet/ http://civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet/): Petitions and Surveys For petitions and surveys you've signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information - for example, we may provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to the President and legislators, other targets, or to the press. We will not make your street address publicly available, but we may transmit it to members of Congress and to the President as part of a petition. This is a standard industry practice in such situations. In no such case will we disclose your email address or phone number without your permission. We may also make your comments, along with your first name, city, and state available to the press and public online. Under circumstances where we determine that members may be misusing our systems for malicious purposes (for example, using the numbers we provide to make harassing phone calls), such activities may be reported to law enforcement agencies. In such cases, MoveOn may release personally identifiable information, including name and address, to those agencies.

by gst 15y ago

briandear 15y ago

It's a great way for the whitehouse to build contact lists for potential contributors. The petitions are meaningless. Pressuring Congress is far more effective and time-tested.

bmj 15y ago

Isn't this the way petitions work? I mean, if a group brings a petition to a city council, what good is it if it's full of names? Simply saying "15,000 people support this" without enumerating those supporters doesn't seem very effective. And that also seems to be standard verbiage for online petitions. See this one (http://civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet/ http://civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet/): Petitions and Surveys For petitions and surveys you've signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information - for example, we may provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to the President and legislators, other targets, or to the press. We will not make your street address publicly available, but we may transmit it to members of Congress and to the President as part of a petition. This is a standard industry practice in such situations. In no such case will we disclose your email address or phone number without your permission. We may also make your comments, along with your first name, city, and state available to the press and public online. Under circumstances where we determine that members may be misusing our systems for malicious purposes (for example, using the numbers we provide to make harassing phone calls), such activities may be reported to law enforcement agencies. In such cases, MoveOn may release personally identifiable information, including name and address, to those agencies.